...- sexual history, each no less than eight hundred years from the next: the Siren episode in the Odyssey (c. 700 B.C.E the writings of Augustine (composed 387– 413), the music and writings of Hildegard of Bingen (composed 1150–75), and the performances of Marilyn Manson in 1996. I choose these moments...

..., and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer (2001) and Premodernities: Archaeology of an Avant-Garde (forthcom- ing), which explores the influence of medieval studies on French theoretical dis- course from Georges Bataille to Pierre Bourdieu. Regina G. Kunzel teaches history...

... of Hildegarde of Bingen (1098–1179 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19 (1993): 92–125; Karma Lochrie, “Mystical Acts, Queer Tendencies,” in Constructing Medieval Sexuality, ed. Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken, and James A. Schultz (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997...

..., and Desire in Medieval Cul- OVIDIAN HOMOEROTICS IN TWELFTH-CENTURY PARIS 423 ture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), 137–87. 14. Bruce Holsinger and David Townsend, “The Ovidian Verse Epistles of Master Leoni- nus...

... the Areopagite drew attention to an ecstatic spirituality that is in many ways disembodied (that is, emphasizing out- of- body experiences). Yet there were additionally many significant women theologians, including Hildegarde of Bingen, Clare of Assisi, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Angela of Foligno, and Julian...